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Noemi Figueroa Soulet Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2017-03
Abstract
A Puerto Rican wedding doll given to Noemi Figueroa Soulet from her aunt Alberta Figueroa. The doll’s wedding dress is hand-made with a white lace veil and pink bows. The doll measures 16 inches tall. Also included is a note to Noemi from her aunt in Puerto Rico, “Titi Berta”.
Dates:
1996
Olga Jiménez Wagenheim, Ph.D. Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2006-03
Abstract
Professor Emeritus, Dr. Jimenez-Wagenheim, a specialist in Caribbean and Latin American history and author of several books and articles, directed the Puerto Rican Studies Program at Rutgers-Newark for more than 20 years. In 1999, she began volunteering at the Newark Public Library, where she and Ingrid Betancourt founded The New Jersey Hispanic Research and Information Center (NJHRIC) at The Newark Public Library. In 2001, she founded the Friends of HRIC, a support group to help facilitate...
Dates:
1868 – 2005
Perfecto Oyola Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2018-01
Abstract
Community and political activist in Jersey City. Perfecto Oyola founded the Puertorriqueños Asociados for Community Organization (PACO) in 1970, serving as its first Executive Director until 1987. Oyola was active in securing tenant’s rights, decreasing unemployment and increasing the visibility of Hispanics in local politics. The collection contains copies of newspaper clippings acknowledging his accomplishments, following his councilman campaign, and projects he supported. A poster for...
Dates:
1966 – 2012; Majority of material found within 1970 – 1975
Puerto Rican Community Action Board, Inc. Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2011-05
Abstract
The Puerto Rican Action Board was established in 1971 as a private non-profit organization. Its focus is to provide early childhood education, youth development, job assistance, and community advocacy to economically disadvantages families. The organization maintains strong collaborations with agencies and businesses to help meet their goals. The Puerto Rican Action Board, Inc. Records include correspondence, grants, agreements, applications, drafts, proposals related to the weatherization...
Dates:
1977 – 1995, undated
Puerto Rican Educators Association Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2005-01
Abstract
Concerned Puerto Rican educators interested in assuring that Puerto Rican and Latino students were afforded the best education possible founded the Puerto Rican Educators Association in New Jersey in 1971. The Puerto Rican Educators Association includes Puerto Rican, Latino and non-Latino educators, administrators, psychologists, social workers and parents. The Puerto Rican Educator Association Records contain original documents of the organization’s incorporation and its by-laws....
Dates:
1971 – 1996, undated
Puerto Rican Unity for Progress Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2009-08
Abstract
Puerto Rican Unity for Progress (PRUP) was incorporated in 1976 as a non-profit agency to promote improved access to economic, social, and cultural opportunities and resources for low income individuals and their families with special emphasis on the Hispanic population. The materials cover the following subject matters: art/ culture, business, education, family & community life, health & community welfare, occupation & labor, and organizations & leaders.
Dates:
1971 – 2003
Roberto Rivera-Soto Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2006-06
Abstract
The collection documents Roberto Rivera-Soto’s career as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey. The collection spans the years from 1953-2006, with the bulk of the papers dating from 2004-2005. The papers include his personal and biographical life, correspondence, programs, publications, invitations, greeting cards, flyers, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The papers are in English and Spanish. The materials written in Spanish are from his early life in...
Dates:
1954 – 2006, undated
Sigfredo Carrion Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2014-04
Abstract
Sigfredo Carrion attended Rutgers – Newark, where he co-founded the student organization, Puerto Rican Organization (P.R.O.). He was actively involved as a community activist in Newark, where he served on the People’s Committee, one of the negotiation committees that met with Mayor Gibson at the on-set of the 1974 Newark Puerto Rican riots. The collection consists of 14 photographs of ASPIRA’s lead poisoning screening campaign and clothing drive in 1971.
Dates:
1971
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